luc is figuring it out ♻️🛰️

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

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This is an opportunity to double your impact: support 6 families & a displacement camp of 15 more with food, shelter, medicine, & displacement needs

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Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that the...

There’s a sprint to get this effort to its next milestone. Can anyone match my $20?

This is an opportunity to double your impact: support 6 families & a displacement camp of 15 more with food, shelter, medicine, & displacement needs

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle chuffed.org/project/hope...

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Communing with each other during all this, writing it all down now is work that does need doing, and securely. The more of us that do it, the more the insane pace of it all isn’t able to get the better of us.

Sometimes (a lot of the time) it’s all too much. but that notion has helped me a little. ♥️

i’ve been reading through a really amazing well-curated archive of interviews w/ people who lived through the AIDS epidemic in the 80s and 90s, and so many of those interviews were done decades after the fact, finding survivors and persuading them to relay stories about their lost loved ones.

i’m right there with you.

a thought that has brought me some resolve to write recently is that the people who are lucky enough to find ways to survive despite it all are the ones that get to help archive, preserve memories, rebuild the historical record when it’s over. It’s crucial work.

nah

just remembered i’m in the last year of my 20s

car phones. The Landline. The Computer Room. Portable CD players. answering machines. cassette tapes. vhs players. the video rental store.

the view of a wooded trail from atop Tex, a sweet, mild-mannered horse.

a bright, tie-dye painted bus towing inner tubes in the background, a bike and a row of red kayaks in the foreground. It is raining.

myself and coyne atop our horses, smiling in the sun. the shenandoah river is visible behind us through the trees.

myself and coyne atop our horses, tied up at the stable. the shenandoah valley’s blue ridge mountains are visible behind us.

good weekend

When you are feeling weary or despairing, remember that there are people in every corner of the world taking life affirming action in the direction of more justice. The fact that you can't see it all is a comfort because it means there is an excess of positive actions happening all at once. #onwards

for real lol 🤣

a comically large vanilla chocolate swirl soft serve ice cream cone

I ordered a small and the lady handed me this???

I’m happy for you! I didn’t even know you’re trans. I was just clarifying that top surgery was the recovery experience *I* was pulling from. Your post was non-specific (but it’s none of my business what surgery you’re having). Hope you have an easy recovery! 👍🏼

Get family/ friends to help you with literally everything. Sleep elevated up on a wedge pillow. Ultimately: Do not compromise instructions on no lifting/ rest from your surgeon. Physically healing will take a lot more of your energy than you realize. You will be tired out by just laying there. GL! ♥️

From a top surgery haver: Early & repeated reminders to kiddo that you are sick & hugging hurts right now. Analogies like “gentle like a baby bunny, no squeezing” make it easier to parse. If it comes to the point where you need a person to physically guard you from attack-hugs, you should get that.

[laughs] [does not answer]

folks, i love her

my sibling taught me how to set up my lock screen to switch to a new random photo of my wife every hour and it’s almost scary how much genuine joy this has given me

nailed it

when you’re trans people really just say shit to you

Three million Americans marched today. Here’s why we wrote about one American who didn’t.

Miso Fermented in Space Has an Entirely Different Taste The experiment could go a long way towards helping space travelers make their own nutritious, delicious ingredients.

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Breaking: Military issues policy banning trans military service, implementing Trump EO The policy was filed Wednesday evening in a challenge to the executive order and will be subject to legal challenges.

NEW: DOD issued its new military policy on Wednesday banning all transgender people who are living as themselves from joining or continuing to serve in the military. Under the policy, “separation actions” of current service members who are transgender are to begin within the next two months.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.

losing my mind man

i have a thing of cherry bitters for old fashioneds! just a dash or two made it perfect (i also mounted a ton of butter into it at the end which always helps lol)

did a cherry juice-cherry tomato-bitters-balsamic-honey reduction for the steak tonight and i think ive died and gone to heaven

chappell roan wichita lineman cover when